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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416548508
ISBN: 1416548505
Label: Pocket
Manufacturer: Pocket
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 528
Publication Date: 2008-06-17
Publisher: Pocket
Studio: Pocket

In the waning days of summer, 2005, a storm with greater impact than the bomb that struck Hiroshima peels the face off southern Louisiana.

This is the gruesome reality Iberia Parish Sheriff's Detective Dave Robicheaux discovers as he is deployed to New Orleans. As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The power grid of the city has been destroyed, New Orleans reduced to the level of a medieval society. There is no law, no order, no sanctuary for the infirm, the helpless, and the innocent. Bodies float in the streets and lie impaled on the branches of flooded trees. In the midst of an apocalyptical nightmare, Robicheaux must find two serial rapists, a morphine-addicted priest, and a vigilante who may be more dangerous than the criminals looting the city.

In a singular style that defies genre, James Lee Burke has created a hauntingly bleak picture of life in New Orleans after Katrina. Filled with complex characters and depictions of people at both their best and worst, The Tin Roof Blowdown is not only an action-packed crime thriller, but a poignant story of courage and sacrifice that critics are already calling Burke's best work.

Customer Rating:
Review Summary: This Is My First JLB Novel...
Review: Although I've been an avid reader all my life, somehow I'd never heard of James Lee Burke before noticing "Tin Roof Blowdown" at the corner grocery market one night when desperate for reading material and there was nothing by familiar favorite authors in the bookstand. So I took a chance and by 10 pages in that night, I was hooked on Mr. Burke -- that was my first novel of his but it certainly won't be my last. Fantastic writer! Robicheaux is an intriguing, complex leading man and Burke's telling of the Katrina tragedy is RIVETING, SUSPENSEFUL, MOVING, MULTI-LAYERED. His writing is poetic and thought-provoking yet moves like a speeding train, I couldn't put the book down all weekend, it's one of the best books I've ever read. That was only a month ago and I've read two more JLB novels, the two latest Billy Bob Holland stories and I found them both fascinating and can't wait for the next Holland epic. And I'm looking forward to more Robicheax, I'll be reading them all. No wonder this writer won two Edgars, and now he's won a Franilla!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: So-so Detective Story
Review: This is an overly-long detective story. Some of the characters and their stories go nowhere. The ending can be seen ages before, and I found that I wanted the book to hurry up and "get it over with."

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: still waiting
Review: I have been waiting a few years for a first rate Robicheaux novel to come along. not since Purple Cane Road have I been absorbed by the series. I got hooked on the series reading Sunset Limited. in this latest installment there were flashes of brilliance, but I was left underwhelmed by the character of Bertrand Melancon (brutal robber, murderer, rapist- but we were supposed to feel sympathy for him as he tried to make amends with his paper towel apology)-give me a break.
Alafair uses profane graphic descriptions to tell off a creep- overrought and melodramatic.
Molly is a lame replacement for Bootsie (and Annie for that matter). Her basic goodness is her only facet.
I love Mr. Burke's writing, but sadly The edgy Robicheaux of yesteryear has disappeared. How I wish for another Heaven's prisoners type installment!

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Interesting mystery taking place during the most distressing disaster of this country's history.
Review: I enjoyed this book and the insight I obtained from the details re the hurricane. The suspense was just an added bonus. Very well written.

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Customer Rating:
Review Summary: One Word - Beautiful
Review: Not the distruction that called herself Katrina, but this authors' writing.
I am a new James Lee Burke reader with this being my first read (actually audio) and in awe of this man's vivid and rich writing prose.
There were times when I rewound the tape to re-listen to the way he discribes a simple way someone looks and walks down a New Orleans street.

Anyway, the stories are the reason to keep on reading and he delivers big with {sad, funny, beautiful, tense, brutal, ugly, smelly, clever, tough and weak characters and plots}

If you really want to experience his books the way they should be experienced, get the audible (audio) versions..the narrater delivers the book like "listening" to a movie.

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